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<h1 class="topictitle1">Creating a Certificate Chain File</h1>
<div><p>If the CA certificate is not a root CA certificate, the imported CA certificate must be a complete certificate chain file. This topic describes how to create a certificate chain file.</p>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Prerequisites</h4><p>You have obtained the CA certificates of all levels.</p>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Procedure</h4><p>Assume that the Google Chrome browser is used.</p>
<ol><li><span>Open Google Chrome, click <span><img src="en-us_image_0000001839166345.png"></span>, and choose <span class="uicontrol"><b>Connection is secure</b></span>.</span></li><li><span>Click <span class="uicontrol"><b>Certificate is valid</b></span>.</span></li><li><span>In the displayed dialog box, click the <strong>Details</strong> tab.</span></li><li><span>Select a certificate that is not at the last layer in <strong>Certificate Hierarchy</strong> and click <strong>Export</strong>.</span></li><li><span>Create a text file, such as <strong>certificate.txt</strong>.</span></li><li><span>Open the certificate files in sequence of root certificate, level-2 certificate, level-3 certificate, and so on. Then, copy the content (from "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----" to "-----END CERTIFICATE-----") of the certificate files in sequence to the newly created text file.</span><p><p>The following figure uses a level-3 CA certificate as an example to show the content of a complete certificate chain file.</p>
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</p></li><li><span>Save the file and change the file name extension to <strong>pem</strong>.</span></li></ol>
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